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YouTube Shorts to split share of ad revenue between music rightsholders and creators from February 1

Shorts' revenue-sharing model replaces the YouTube Shorts Fund

The story of Trefuego’s TikTok hit 90mh – and Sony’s bid to scrub it from the internet

It was a TikTok viral hit with hundreds of millions of streams – before Sony issued a copyright takedown. But five months on, it won't go away.

Universal Music Group sued over its Spotify equity ownership by artist in class action lawsuit

Black Sheep says it should have received equity from UMG's holding in Daniel Ek's company

The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’ overtakes Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’ to become Spotify’s most-streamed track of all time

There's a new No. 1 in Spotify's all-time-most-streamed rankings

From Anghami’s 200,000 AI-generated songs to the latest copyright infringement lawsuit against a US ISP… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip

Classical music use on YouTube content soared 90% globally in 2022 — report

Epidemic Sound publishes inaugural Sound of the Internet Report

Allen Kovac and Better Noise pivoted to horror movies during the pandemic – and found a promotional goldmine for rock artists.

Over 150 million views of music videos with The Retaliators footage have taken place on YouTube alone

Another music streaming service is making its own AI-generated songs – and it’s on course to create over 200,000 of them.

MENA-focused Anghami claims that it will soon become the first platform to host over 200k songs generated by AI.